“Bel-Air” ends season 4 on Peacock

Peacock will return Bel Air one last time.

The NBCUniversal-owned streamer has renewed Bel Air – a dramatic take on Will Smith’s 1990s NBC comedy The Fresh Prince of Bel Air – for a fourth and final season. The renewal will take place approximately three months after the conclusion of the third season.

The series, which counts Smith as an executive producer, grew out of a YouTube video by Morgan Cooper that reimagined the sitcom as a dark drama. Peacock was convinced by the idea and gave the project a two-season order in September 2020; Bel Air Premiere in February 2022.

In season three, Will (Jabari Banks) and Carlton (Olly Sholotan) grew closer as Carlton tried to leave his addictive life behind him and rebuild his reputation – but the newfound partnership also revealed fundamental differences in their experiences and worldviews.

“I think the best part was watching people join us on our journey and start watching from this position of skepticism and ‘I don’t know anything,'” said showrunner Carla Banks Waddles The Hollywood Reporter Midway through the third season. “And then seeing them hate Carlton at first and be like, ‘What the hell did they do to Carlton?’ that he truly is a beloved character and that people support him, understand him and want the best for him. And him and Will and their dynamic duo together, it was just fun to watch Will in this new space be that fish out of the water in a whole different, more dramatic way.”

Along with Banks and Sholotan Bel Air The cast includes Adrian Holmes, Cassandra Freeman, Coco Jones, Akira Akbar, Jimmy Akingbola, Jordan L. Jones and Simone Joy Jones.

Universal Television and Westbrook Studios are producing the series. Waddles will executive produce alongside Cooper, Smith, Terence Carter, James Lassiter, Miguel Melendez, Benny Medina, Quincy Jones and Andy and Susan Borowitz.